Brazil’s unemployment numbers. After scraping an all-time low of 4.6% in December, the Brazilian jobless rate drifted higher in January. Today will reveal February’s data. Also today: US jobless claims.

While you were sleeping

South Korea plans to stimulate its economy, somehow. After dismal Q4 GDP figures released Tuesday, the government today cut its growth forecast by 70 basis points to 2.3% and said it would stimulate the economy with a set of measures to be announced next month.

Nelson Mandela went back to the hospital. The 94-year-old former president of South Africa is suffering from a recurring lung infection.

The US said it wants to check Sprint’s equipment. The government wants to approve (paywall) any technology the American carrier Sprint adds to its core network once it is taken over by Japan’s Softbank telecommunications because it fears equipment from China’s ZTE or Huawei may be used for espionage. But this attitude—and the legislation that goes with it—could also affect companies like Apple.

Christopher Mims explains why the internet is making us poor. “Like farming and factory work before it, the labors of the mind are being colonized by devices and systems. In the early 1800′s, nine out of ten Americans worked in agriculture—now it’s around 2%. At its peak, about a third of the US population was employed in manufacturing—now it’s less than 10%. How many decades until the figures are similar for the information-processing tasks that typify rich countries’ post-industrial economies?” Read more here.